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I’m a huge fan of NPR’s Science Friday program. I was listening today and heard an interview with Mark Brender, vice president of marketing and communications at GeoEye regarding the launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite. He commented on advances in mapping, fielded questions regarding cost and image capture frequency, and in a comical moment, was [...]
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This column is sponsored by ESRI The question of global cooperation and coordination of geospatial efforts is an important one. There are many fronts where global cooperation is necessary, including navigation and positioning tools, data sharing, and monitoring. Our world is a seamless place with only our own fabricated political boundaries, and the management of [...]
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The Brookings Institution just released a report on the emerging economic “megapolitan” regions of the American west that are experiencing fast population growth and economic prosperity. The report is titled, “Mountain Megas: America’s Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper,” and is part of the institution’s Blueprint for American Prosperity initiative. [...]
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This column is sponsored by ESRI There’s much investment in large global modeling environments, such as Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer and NASA’s World Wind. The prevailing wisdom in the marketplace seems to favor multiple competing globes for different purposes. Certainly the amount of data that could be spatially referenced and modeled [...]
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I took the family to one of the most memorable museums from my childhood. The Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin chronicles the history of circuses in America. They have a large collection of old circus memorabilia and history, as well as live shows with performers from around the world. The restored circus wagons are [...]
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There’s a story in the North Country Gazette about a New York City Department of Environmental Protection employee that was sentenced to two years of probation for making false entries in logbooks for measurements of drinking water quality. The worker admitted entering in made-up values after skipping many measurement, analysis and calibration steps, including a [...]
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Following is a framework of questions that I’ll be asking panelists this morning at the GITA Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference. I’ll share impressions later today. Do you have any answers? Systems, Data and Integration When speaking of GIS technology for the greater good, we’re largely referring to the decision support function of this toolset that [...]
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NASA has been testing and using a Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for Earth science missions since November 2006. The aircraft named Ikhana gained a good deal of exposure in October 2007 when it was deployed to help fight wildfires in Southern California. In addition to being deployed for emergency situations, this craft is [...]
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Virtual Environment Planning System
by Matt Ball on July 31, 2008
One of the more interesting presentations that I saw at GeoWeb was about the creation of a 3D City Model for Public Participation. The presentation by Jürgen Bogdahn of the University of Applied Science in Stuttgart detailed a planning prototype that combined 2D and 3D visualization with comments linked to the map. The case study [...]
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